Alvin Plantinga

Alvin Carl Plantinga (15 November 1932-) was an American philosopher.

Biography
Alvin Carl Plantinga was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on 15 November 1932, and he taught at Calvin College from 1963 to 1982 before becoming the John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and as the first Jellema Chair of Philosophy at his alma mater. A prominent Christian philosopher, he became America's leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God, and he was awarded the Templeton Prize in 2017. He defined theodicy as an "answer to the question of why God permits evil" and suggested the logical possibility of "a mighty non-human spirit" (i.e. non-God supernatural beings and fallen angels) whose free will is responsible for "natural evils", including earthquakes, floods, and virulent diseases.